They’ve just announced the official line-up for this year’s PEN World Voices Festival. If you want the whole run-down, click here. One of our authors, Quim Monzó, is attending this year. And in addition to the event he’s doing here in Rochester with his translator Mary Ann Newman on April 26th, he’s got several events lined up in New York as well: on the 29th with Co...
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The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett.About the book, from the publisher:The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here: a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the twenty-first century.At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a young banker
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I’m delighted to be today’s stop of the first Spotlight Series tour. This is a blogger-created event done to increase awareness of small presses (much like the Classics Circuit does for classic authors), and their first publisher is Unbridled Books. Before this, I’d read four novels published by Unbridled, and I’d enjoyed all
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The Fourth Annual BSCreview Book Tournament is now officially under way. We have a last-minute replacement in the book roster. One author asked that their book be withdrawn, so by popular request from our forum regulars Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Windup Girl will be joining the fray instead. Voting for round one is now open and will ...
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Author makes shortlist for Hans Christian Andersen prize, and is also in contention for the £460,000 Astrid Lindgren award Next week could be a big one for David Almond. The Carnegie medal-winning British author is in the running for two of the most important international prizes in children's literature: the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen medal and the Astrid Lindgren memorial awa...
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